First look at ‘Brian and Margaret’, a Channel 4 drama depicting former PM Thatcher's final ever TV interview

Channel 4 announced they had commissioned the TV play successful June and present the archetypal pictures from the acceptable person been released.

Speaking of the two-part drama, Channel 4 said: “When 2 aged friends, the 'much feared inquisitor', Brian Walden (Steve Coogan), and 'Iron Lady' Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher (Harriet Walter), travel unneurotic for their past ever TV interview, small bash they realise they're astir to embark connected 1 of the astir infamous governmental exchanges of each time. The 45-minute showdown became a nationalist talking constituent and acceptable successful bid a bid of events that ended with Margaret’s resignation.

“Afterwards, they ne'er spoke again.”

Written by award-winner James Graham and based connected governmental exertion and TV shaper Rob Burley’s publication ‘Why is This Lying B*sta*d Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth connected Political TV’, the play volition feature Steve Coogan arsenic Brian Walden and Harriet Walter arsenic Margaret Thatcher.

The bid is directed by Academy Award nominee and BAFTA-winning Stephen Frears. However, it has not yet been fixed a merchandise date.

Speaking astatine the clip of the committee announcement, Steve Coogan said: “It’s large to beryllium telling a communicative from the epoch of the sorely missed forensic interrogation - 2 giants of their clip locking horns to find the aboriginal of Britain. To enactment other Harriet Walter with a publication by James Graham directed by Stephen Frears is simply a situation of the precise champion kind.”

Harriet Walter added: “I person to question a large region to scope Maggie Thatcher but with James’s superb script, Stephen Frears to usher maine and Steve Coogan to travel maine I person the imagination squad to assistance maine execute it.”